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• Abstract of Hippocrates: to the Reader.
• Arrangement of the Writings of Hippocrates.
• Introduction.
• The Works of Hippocrates.
• Section I. The Oath of Hippocrates.
• The Law of Hippocrates.
• On the Art of Medicine.
• The Art of Medicine In Former Times.
• Of the Physician.
• On Decency In Manners and In Dress.
• Precepts of Hippocrates.
• Section II. A: the Book of Prognostics.
• Hippocrates On the Humours. a
• Hippocrates On Crises.
• Of Critical Days, Or of What Has a Relation to Crises.
• Predictions Or Prognostics.
• The Coan Prognostics.
• Appendix. of the Diseases Incident to Different Ages.
• Section III. A: On the Nature of Man.
• On Generation.
• On the FŒtal Nature.
• On the Origin of Man.
• On the Seven-month Birth.
• Of an Eight-month Birth.
• On SuperfŒtation.
• On Dentition.
• Of the Heart.
• On the Glands.
• On the Nature of the Bones.
• On Airs, Waters, and Localities.
• Parallel Between the Asiatics and Europeans.
• Of Flatus.
• Of Epilepsy.
• Section IV.: On a Healthy Diet.
• On Regimen. In Three Books.
• On Dreams.
• Of Aliment.
• The Rationale of Food In Acute Diseases.
• On the Different Parts of Man.
• Of the Employment of Liquids.
• Section V.: On Diseases.
• On Affections. a
• Of Internal Affections.
• Of Diseases of Virgins.
• Of the Nature of Woman.
• Of Female Diseases.
• On Barrenness.
• On Vision.
• Section VI. A: On the Shop Or Office of the Physician.
• On Fractures.
• On the Joints.
• On the Reduction of Fractures and Luxations.
• On Ulcers.
• On FistulÆ.
• On the Hemorrhoids Or Piles.
• On Wounds of the Head.
• On the Extraction of the Dead FŒtus.
• On Dissections.
• Section VII. A: the Epidemics of Hippocrates.
• The First Book of Epidemics.
• The Third Book of Epidemics.
• Pestilential Constitution
• Thucydides Upon the Plague At Athens.
• Clifton’s Proof of This Not Being That Described By Hippocrates
• The Second Book of Epidemics.
• The Fourth Book of Epidemics.
• The Fifth Book of Epidemics.
• The Sixth Book of Epidemics.
• The Seventh Book of Epidemics.
• The Book of Aphorisms.
• Section VIII.: Extraneous.
• EpistolÆ Hippocratis.
• I.: Liber De Hominis Structura, Ad Perdiccam Regem.
• II.: De Natura Hominis.
• III.: Liber De Ætate.
• IV.: De Septimestri Partu, Liber Spurius.
• V.: De Significatione VitÆ Et Mortis, Secundum Motum LunÆ, Et Adspectus Planetarum.
• VI.: Liber De Medicamentis Purgantibus.
• VII.: De Veratri Usu.
• VIII.: De Antidoto.
• IX.: Antidotum.
• X.: De Re Veterinaria.
• An Abstract of the Writings of Galen.
• Introductory Remarks.
• The Works of Galen.
• The Introductory Treatises of Galen.
• I.: Oratio Suasoria Ad Artes.
• II.: Si Quis Optimus Medicus Est, Eundem Esse Philosophus.
• III.: De Sophismatis In Verbo Contingentibus.
• IV.: Quod Qualitates IncorporeÆ Sint.
• V.: De Libris Propriis Galeni.
• VI.: De Ordine Librorum Suorum.
• VII.: De Sectis.
• VIII.: Galeni, De Optima Secta.
• IX.: De Optimo Docendi Genere.
• X.: De Subfiguratione Empirica.
• XI.: Sermo Adversus Empiricos Medicos.
• XII.: De Constitutione Artis MedicÆ.
• XIII.: Finitiones MedicÆ.
• XIV.: Introductio Vel Medicus.
• XV.: Quomodo Morbum Simulantes Sint Deprehendendi.
• XVI.: Ars Medicinalis.
• Class I.: Physiology, Anatomy, Etc.
• Class II.: Hygiene.
• Class III.: Ætiology.
• Class IV.: Semeiotics.
• Class V.: Of Pharmacy.
• Class VI.: Of the Instruments of Clinical Practice. a
• Class VII.: Therapeutics.
• Additional Class. a
• Spurii Galeno Ascripti Libri. a
• Fragments.
• Liste Des Livres De Galien, Tirée De L’édition De Chartier.

FRAGMENTS.

Galeni, operum quorundam, quæ aliquo modo mutilata ad nos pervenere, Fragmenta, ad varias medicinæ partes attinentia, quæ proximæ tantum ante hanc editiones evulgaverant.—Ven. Ed. 1609.

All the above are of slight importance, further than as completing from every quarter all that relates to Galen and his works. The whole of the writings thus noticed briefly in the foregoing sheets, occupy several hundred folio pages, spread through six or seven volumes in the Latin, and five in the Greek. A new edition in the present style of typography had been long wanting,a for numerous difficulties attend the perusal of the older copies, and are sufficient in the present day to preclude most persons from making the attempt. A few of these I shall notice. They consist of numerous contractions, omission of complete syllables, and often of the hyphen at the close of a line, in the division of the syllables of a word. The extreme closeness of many words to each other, at times nearly running into one another, as though but one. The use of one letter for another, as j in place of i, (thus ijs for iis, v for u, and reversely.) Of which the following are examples.

Contractions, &c.

All these, and many others—together with a want of stops at times; at others, a full stop, followed by a small letter—render the reading very far from desirable. In the days of those editions, such contractions and other particulars enumerated, were fully understood, and were productive of neither mistake nor difficulty. Not so now, especially since the Latin language has become much less familiar. Now, these are not of merely rare occurrence; but occur by scores in every page, and as they are not uniformly maintained, the labour is much augmented.

At the end of Le Clerc’s “Histoire de la Médecine,” he has given us an apology for the condensed view he has afforded of the writings of Galen, which will serve with equal force in behalf of the editor of this volume; and which the editor begs to place before his readers with a like intention.

“Si l’on avoit voulu entrer dans un détail qui eût renfermé tout cela, il auroit fallu faire un gros livre; à moins de quoi il auroit été impossible de rendre exactement raison de tout ce qu’il y a de remarquable dans six volumes in folio que nous avons de Galien.”

This apology is followed by a list of the writings of Galen, derived from the edition given by Chartier, the most full and perfect of any edition that had been given to the world previous to that of Kühns. It may not be unacceptable to the reader, and I give it therefore as it appears in Le Clerc.—Ed.

[a ]This has been effected by the assiduity of the learned Gottlob Kühn, Professor of Physiology and Pathology in the University of Leipsic, in 1832, but whose edition did not come into my possession, until the preceding abstract was completed. It would have saved me much trouble had it reached me at the period of its publication.